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The Rise and Fall of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby, a Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2032 words, 3 pages)

Many people claim that "The Great Gatsby" is the quintessential American novel. This is due to the reoccurring theme of the book of the rise and fall of the American dream. The book is very significant because of its relation to the time period in which it was written and ... Read More

The Concept of a Dying Man in the Middle of the African Safari in The Snows of Kilimanjaro, a Short Story by Ernest Hemingway (1015 words, 3 pages)

The Marvelous thing is that its painless, he said. Thats how you know when it starts (Hemingway 3). A dying man in the middle of the African Safari, is the concept of Ernest Hemingways, The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Hemingway, in this story more than any other of his works, used ... Read More

My Mother as an Example of a Critical Thinker in my Life (813 words, 1 pages)

We have meet many people, perhaps we might think that all of them think but how many have you meet that are critical thinkers? In this paper I will use someone who is very close to me as an example of a critical thinker and I will show why I ... Read More

The Internal Conflicts and Trials of Rev. John Hale in The Crucible, a Play by Arthur Miller (1093 words, 2 pages)

Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in response to a period in American history when there was widespread fear of communism. It is set in the sixteen nineties, during the infamous Salem Witch Trials. Salem was governed as a Theocracy, rule by God or a priestly order. In this time many ... Read More

A Review of Crest of the Green Leaf: Entry Five (590 words, 1 pages)

16th Day of the 3rd Month I don't know how Father managed to endure the monotony. All day it was nothing but debating. Round and round we went the Counselors endlessly repeating themselves. It's impossible to determine whether they are for or against a war with Black Arrow. Speaking thus, ... Read More

The Undertow That Breaks the Force of the Arching Wave in Astronomer’s Wife, a Short Story by Kay Boyle (572 words, 1 pages)

In the opening paragraph of Kay Boyle's Astronomer's Wife, Boyle depicts a woman who is oppressed of an equal, intelligent conversation with her spouse. Mrs. Ames sees to all matters of running a successful household, while the astronomer sleeps late and is a loner. His profession makes it clear that ... Read More

An Erotic Encounter at the Beach (1630 words, 2 pages)

The only sound that can be heard is the gently lapping of the waves rolling into the beach. She lay naked in the sand slick with sweat in the hot afternoon sun. Alone on the beach, she stretches sensually and gets to her feet. She walks slowly to the water, ... Read More

Friendship in Of Mice and Men, a Novel by John Steinbeck (2480 words, 7 pages)

John Steinbeck celebrated friendship it mapped the contours of his life and art. "In every bit of honest writing in the world," he noted in a 1938 journal entry, "...there is a base theme. Try to understand men if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. ... Read More

The Transformation of the Text of Hamlet in Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1156 words, 2 pages)

Yr 12 Advanced English - Transformations You have studied two texts composed at different times. When you compared these texts and their contexts, how was your understanding of each text developed and reshaped? Hamlet has and will continue to offer to its audience insight into valid and necessary values and ... Read More

The Theme of Survival in Canadian Literature (1642 words, 5 pages)

The Short Story "Be Fruitful and Multiply", by Madeleine Ferron, may in itself seem to be merely the story of one young woman's fervor for creating a family of many children and grandchildren. Due to it being extremely short and marginally descriptive one might have a difficult time discerning little ... Read More

A Comparison of the Similarities in the Archetypes of Unrequited Love in Great Expectations and the Maiden Goddess in Daphne and Appoloin (928 words, 2 pages)

Compare the Archetypes of Unrequited Love and the Maiden Goddess in Great Expectations and Daphne and Apollo. What do Great Expectations and the myth of Daphne and Apollo have in common when comparing the archetypes of unrequited love and the maiden goddess? An archetype is a symbol or idea present ... Read More

Fear and Suspense in The Red Room by H.G. Wells, The Black Cottage by Tom Dudley, and The Signalman by Charles Dickens (2587 words, 3 pages)

In this essay I will be examining how the authors of 'The Red Room', 'The Black Cottage' and 'The Signalman', create fear and suspense in the reader. The fear genre is a huge genre that has thousands of stories within it. The scariest are ones that can make the reader ... Read More

Respect and Wisdom Despite a Young Age in Eleven, a Short Story by Sandra Cisneros (771 words, 1 pages)

The irony of life is that as you grow older you want to experience your youth again, while at the time you are young all you want is to be older. In "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros, Rachel is only eleven years old, yet she would rather be one hundred and ... Read More

The Themes of Love in Robert Frost’s The Silken Tent and Lady Gregory’s Broken Vows (1001 words, 2 pages)

Frost drowns in Lady Gregory's tears Love is a universal phenomenon and nobody seems to love it more than the poets. Perhaps that explains why there have been millions of poems written about hundreds of types of love. Robert Frost's "The Silken Tent" and Lady Gregory's "Broken Vows" are two ... Read More

The Life Decisions of Clarissa and the Postwar Nightmare of Septimus in Mrs. Dalloway, a Novel by Virginia Woolf (2489 words, 7 pages)

Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" is a day-in-the-life story that folds back and forth in time, examining one woman's life decisions and one man's postwar nightmare. The woman is Clarissa Dalloway, a "perfect hostess" in her early fifties, confronts the decisions she made thirty years ago. The man, intended by the ... Read More

The Different Stories and Endings in the Story of Cinderella (1206 words, 2 pages)

Cinderella And its variation in endings What exactly makes a story a Cinderella story? Is it the ending? While there seem to be several interpretations of Cinderella they all seem to have the same conceptual endings. The main-character a girl named Cinderella who is mistreated by her two stepsisters and ... Read More

The Life and Literary Works of English Novelist, Charlotte Bronte (1772 words, 3 pages)

"To you I am neither a man nor a woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me- the sole ground on which I accept your judgement." - Charlotte Bronte, to a critic (Oates, V) Charlotte ... Read More

The Opportunities Opened to Women at the End of the Nineteenth Century in The Betrothed by Anton Chekhov in Comparison to Poor Liza by Nikolay Karamzin (1374 words, 2 pages)

Chekhov's short story, The Betrothed, is about a young woman who leaves home days before her wedding in search for a different life. The life of this heroin represents a larger liberation of women of the nineteenth century. To fully understand the evolution of women within Russian literature, it is ... Read More

The Views of the Author Through the Narrator in The Canterbury Tales, a Book by Geoffrey Chaucer (1498 words, 5 pages)

Geoffrey Chaucer an actual character on this infamous journey to Canterbury? This is a thought that seems to be somewhat over looked when most read Chaucers The Canterbury Tales. As the writer of the Tales, Chaucer took the opportunity to invent a character to represent him. However, does this narrator ... Read More

The Values of Friendship, Loyalty and the Basic Characteristics of Human Beings in the Adventure of Farm Animals in Charlotte’s Web, a Novel by E.B. White (1399 words, 2 pages)

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White is a children's novel that tries to instill the values of friendship, loyalty and basic characteristics of humans through an adventure of farm animals. This novel was written in the early 1950's at the time when the world was split by a curtain in two. ... Read More

A Comparison of the Similarities and Differences in the Short Stories Outside Edges by Ivan Dorin and The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant (935 words, 2 pages)

Stories that seem to have nothing in common can be misleading. Ivan Dorin's short story "Outside Edges" and Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace", have settings roughly 200 years apart, take place on opposite sides of the world, and still depict many similarities. These stories manifest themes of how one can ... Read More

The Characterization of General Zaroff in The Most Dangerous Game, a Short Story by Richard Connell (759 words, 1 pages)

Characterizations in The Most Dangerous Game Although in The Most Dangerous Game General Zaroff is more fully characterized, Richard Connell, the author, intended for Rainsford to be the dynamic character while Zaroff is considered static and both are considered plausible in todays society. Zaroff is physically characterized more than Rainsford ... Read More

The Conspiracy of a Friend in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, a Play by William Shakespeare (853 words, 1 pages)

Julius Ceaser Essay Brutus Character Analysis Marcus Brutus William Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, is mainly based on the assassination of Julius Caesar. The character who was in charge of the assassination was, ironically, Marcus Brutus, a servant and close friend to Julius Caesar. But what would cause ... Read More

The Concept of Opposites Attract in the Characters in Hard Times, a Novel by Charles Dickens (1121 words, 4 pages)

Although a positive charge and a negative charge are polar opposites, when they are placed in close proximity to each other a strong energy is created forcing the two charges to form a solid bond. This proven scientific theory which society has applied to everyday life leads to the saying ... Read More

The Direct and Indirect Characterization of Curley’s Wife in Of Mice and Men, a Novel by John Steinbeck (971 words, 2 pages)

Characterization Curley's Wife in Of Mice And Men With colorful statements like "She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages. She wore a cotton dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were ... Read More

The Multiple Traits of Oedipa in The Crying of Lot 49, a Novella by Thomas Pynchon (1709 words, 5 pages)

Oedipa as a character displays a multitude of traits. She has a deeply set disconnection with society offset by an overwhelming curiosity, a curiosity that leads her through an assortment of various social strata and locations. The development of the novel is driven by these two primary traits that she ... Read More

The Family’s Changes in the Last Four Pages in The Metamorphosis, a Novel by Franz Kafka (491 words, 1 pages)

An attempt to explain the purpose of the last four pages in The Metamorphosis. A question which many critics ask. Good paragraph transistions. Lacking enough supportevidence. At first glance, the final four pages of Franz Kafka's novel The Metamorphosis seem to be meaningless. This assumption, however, is anything but the ... Read More

The Drive of Conflict in Not Wanted on the Voyage, a Novel by Timothy Findley (1346 words, 2 pages)

Not Wanted On The Voyage is driven by one major plot motive, conflict amongst each other. The conflict creates apprehension and drives the book onward. The events of the book greatly add to the conflicts and further add to the tension in the story. Since conflict drives this story the ... Read More

The Effects of Wealth on People in Candide, a Novel by Voltaire (1185 words, 2 pages)

Candide Wealth and great materialistic possession brings happiness and success to most peoples lives. Although wealth does not always bring happiness, El Dorado was one society where all its inhabitants lived lives full of success and happiness. In Candide, wealth proved to guarantee a person a step forward in life ... Read More

Censorship in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1349 words, 2 pages)

When our Forefathers first assembled to write what would later be the law of the land for our country, it was impossible for them to predict that one-day society would advance to a point where issues not addressed in the Constitution would be raised. Our Forefathers authored the First Amendment ... Read More

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